FIVE European Union nations said on Tuesday they were reaching out to Aids patients in the developing world by sending doctors and other medical staff to African and Latin American hospitals. Officials from France, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain said their hospitals would team up with hospitals in poor nations to offer them medical expertise, […]
Kimberley | Wednesday A SOUTH African land rights group warned on Tuesday of ”inevitable” Zimbabwe-style land invasions, saying they were a justifiable means of speeding up restitution for those dispossessed by apartheid. The warning from the National Land Committee (NLC), a body of organisations and individuals fighting for land rights, provoked an angry response from […]
ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Wednesday PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki’s working visit to the United States to meet with President George W Bush at the White House, has been met by a hostile media. The Washington Post ran a scathing article on Tuesday about the growing aversion in South Africa to Mbeki’s leadership. Mbeki was compared to […]
SWAZI and South African pro-democracy groups on Monday condemned a repressive new decree which reinforces King Mswati III’s powers over the judiciary, allowing him to bypass recent judgments challenging the monarchy. “This barbaric decree … has served to reinforce the legalised and institutionalised reign of political terror in the kingdom under the tyrannical rule of […]
STRIKING public workers in Zambia have scaled down their demands from a 100% pay hike to a “reasonable” salary increment, a union leader said on Monday. “We have come down from our initial demand. We have asked the government to give us a reasonable offer,” said Darison Chaala, secretary general of the Civil Servants Union […]
UGANDANS go to the polls on Tuesday to vote in legislative elections held in the wake of a moderately volatile campaign and under a system which prohibits political parties from functioning normally. At stake are 214 of the 295 seats in Uganda’s seventh parliament since independence. The other seats are reserved for special groups such […]
SIX people died in a massive protest against the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on June 14, according to a new official toll. A previous official toll had put the number of casualties at four dead and 946 injured. The protest was the biggest seen in the north African country since it declared independence from […]
Cape Town | Tuesday CONSERVATIONISTS on Monday said only 7% of the thousands of penguins oiled after a carrier ship sank off South Africa a year ago, have been seen breeding again, indicating that spills might make the birds sterile. About 33% of those who were clean but were evacuated to swim back are breeding” […]
A POWERFUL political group from northern Nigeria said on Monday it has hired 20 lawyers to counter claims made to the country’s human rights panel over the two military coups of 1966. The Arewa Consultative Forum’s general secretary, Inuwa Abdulkadir, said the lawyers were hired to counter claims made by the Ohaneze Ndigbo, a group […]
TWO South African organisations that have threatened to invade farms have accused the government of wrongfully arresting 19 alleged land invaders in Kuruman in the Northern Cape. The Mpumalanga Labour Tenants Committee (MLTC) and the Free State Farming Community on Monday expressed their “anger and disappointment” with the arrests. The 19 members of the Groot […]